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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (52230)8/20/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
X, of course my "good for you" was meant as applause for your speaking out against neo-Social Darwinism.

Never underestimate the power of a discredited idea to revive. The subtext of much discussion of social issues today is again the presumption that the law of social life is "survival of the fittest," and that those who survive and prosper are obviously the "fittest." Again it is even fashionable to say -- with a straight face, mind you -- things like: "the poor are poor because they want to be," or "it is not only good policy, but morally right, to allow the weak and unfit to fall by the wayside."

And again we are hearing reductive little moral fables about grasshoppers and ants! (Strange that radical individualists should identify with ants, incidentally.)

I submit that there are a lot more insects around than just grasshoppers and ants. As your sad experience has clearly taught you.

Joan
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